U.S. Public Diplomacy and Democratization in Spain

Selling Democracy?
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-46144-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 237 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4188 g

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy

When the post-war relationship between Spain and America began, Hitler's old ally was an unlikely candidate for US influence. The Cold War changed all this. Soon there were US bases on Spanish territory and a political conjuring trick was under way. This volume examines the public diplomacy strategies that the US government employed to accomplish an almost impossible mission: to keep a warm relationship with a tyrant without drifting apart from his opponents, and to somehow pave the way for a transition to democracy. The book's focus on the perspective of soft power breaks new ground in understanding US-Spanish relations. In so doing, it offers valuable lessons for understanding how public diplomacy has functioned in the past and can function today and tomorrow in transitions to democracy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodriguez-Jimenez, Francisco

Delgado, Lorenzo

Cull, Nicholas J

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Über Autor(innen)

Contributors: Mark ASQUINO, US Ambassador Lorenzo DELGADO, Instituto de Historia, CCHS-CSIC, Spain Pablo LEÓN, Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Zaragoza, Spain. Rosa PARDO, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia-Madrid, Spain. Francisco J. RODRÍGUEZ, Universidad de Salamanca R.C. Complutense de Harvard, Spain Neal ROSENDORF, New Mexico State University, USA. Giles SCOTT-SMITH, Senior Researcher at the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg and Ernst van der Beugel Chair in Diplomatic History at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.